Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200911061122.16814.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
Just after pressing this "ENTER", I tried the following: [Moved $(ELF-y) to end of the assignment and kill trailing spaces]
-ELF := $(ELF-y) $(ELF-$(ARCH)) $(ELF-$(BOARD)) $(ELF-$(CPU)) +ELF := $(ELF-$(ARCH)) $(ELF-$(BOARD)) $(ELF-$(CPU)) $(ELF-y)
And it worked! The message for COBJS shows:
Makefile:47: *** *** COBJS evaluates to [ hello_world.o smc911x_eeprom.o]. Stop.
So, maybe "make v3.80" has problems with trailing spaces.
For the fix, I can resubmit with the change shown above OR we could keep the original. Let me know your thoughts.
i kind of prefer this method. if we go with the first method, it needs to> have a comment there explaining why the strip exists: # we need the strip to workaround a bug in make-3.80 and whitespace/:=
We definitely need an explanationin any case - otherwise someone might come up with a patch to change the order again (say, to come up with a common form) and it breaks again.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk